Subject: Epitaphs (Page 29)

Stranger pause my tale attend, and learn the cause of Hannah’s end. Across the world the wind did blow, she ketched a cold that laid her low. We shed a lot of tears ‘tis true, but life is short – aged 82.

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Due to lack of ground in this cemetery, two bodies are buried in this one plot. One of them was a politician, the other was an honest man.

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Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies

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This wasn’t my idea

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On the whole I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

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Toothless Nell (Alice Chambers) Killed 1876 in a Dance Hall brawl. Her last words: "Circumstances led me to this end."

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Here lies Donnie Cornwell, good and dead. In an extra large coffin to fit his extra large head.

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Here lies the body of Detlof Swenson, waiter. God finally caught his eye.

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Reader, I've left this world, in which I had a world to do; sweating and fretting to get rich: just such a fool as you.

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As a stranger she did die, in strange lands she doth lie. Here by strangers she was laid, and her funeral charges paid.

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“Deeply regretted by all who never knew him.”

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Once I wasn't – then I was. Now I ain't again.

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Here I lie, taken from life.

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Here lies the body of old Uncle David, who died in the hope of being saved. Where he's gone or how he fares, nobody knows and nobody cares.

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Our Little Charlie – He dropped into our world to taste life’s bitter cup, but turned his little head aside, disgusted with the taste and died.

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Soon ripe, Soon rotten, Soon gone, Not forgotten

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 Here lies the body of Dr Hayward, a man who never voted. Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.

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He is not here – But only his pod; He shelled out his peas – And went to his God.

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Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; when alive he was Mudd, but now he's only dirt

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Here lies James Dunn – he raced for the crossing but the train won

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He heard the angels calling him, from the celestial shore. He flopped his wings and away he flew, to make one angel more.

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